Description of problem: Any operations with CDROM, such as, 'mount' or 'dd' - has result: Cannot allocate memory # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ mount: Cannot allocate memory # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/user/CD.img dd: opening `/dev/cdrom': Cannot allocate memory Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 2) Kernel 2.4.21-15.ELsmp on an i686 dmesg: ... Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 3191.7840 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 199.4865 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 1994865, slice: 664955 CPU0<T0:1994864,T1:1329904,D:5,S:664955,C:1994865> cpu: 1, clocks: 1994865, slice: 664955 CPU1<T0:1994864,T1:664944,D:10,S:664955,C:1994865> cpu_sibling_map[0] = 1 cpu_sibling_map[1] = 0 mapping CPU#0's runqueue to CPU#1's runqueue. zapping low mappings. Process timing init...done. Starting migration thread for cpu 0 Starting migration thread for cpu 1 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=4 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1 Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2640] at 00:1f.0 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P0) -> 16 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I28,P0) -> 16 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P1) -> 19 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P2) -> 18 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P0) -> 23 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P0) -> 18 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 19 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 19 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B4,I3,P0) -> 27 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I3,P0) -> 18 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS not found. Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 Starting kswapd allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 aio_setup: num_physpages = 65017 aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 60 Hugetlbfs mounted. pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SER IAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 256 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 ICH6: chipset revision 3 ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfff0-0xfff7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfff8-0xffff, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hdb: SONY CD-ROM CDU5212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 301k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 megaide: driver version 05.08i (Date: October 20, 2004; 10:03 EST) megaide: LD 0 RAID0 status=ONLINE 156114944 512-byte sectors (79931 MB) drives=1 megaide: LD 1 RAID0 status=ONLINE 1171603456 512-byte sectors (599861 MB) drives =2 scsi0 : LSI Logic MegaIDE RAID BIOS Version 5.3.10081534, 8 targs 1 chans 8 luns Vendor: LSILOGIC Model: LD 0 IDERAID Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: LSILOGIC Model: LD 1 IDERAID Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 156114944 512-byte hdwr sectors (79931 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 SCSI device sdb: 1171603456 512-byte hdwr sectors (599861 MB) sdb: sdb1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal Adding Swap: 6369764k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,17), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran> microcode: No suitable data for cpu 1 microcode: No suitable data for cpu 0 ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.30.1-k1 Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation. divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half Duplex smbfs: Unrecognized mount option noexec smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting invalid smb_retry: successful, new pid=912, generation=2 ... smb_request: result -104, setting invalid smb_retry: successful, new pid=912, generation=51 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdb: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting invalid smb_retry: successful, new pid=912, generation=52 udf: registering filesystem inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-15.ELsmp Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended autofs: called with bogus options ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdb: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver unloaded ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdb: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Uniform CD-ROM driver unloaded ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdb: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 smb_request: result -104, setting invalid smb_retry: successful, new pid=912, generation=53 smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting invalid smb_retry: successful, new pid=912, generation=54 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting invalid smb_retry: successful, new pid=912, generation=55 ...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164062 ***